[Cynnabar] Proposal to amend Cynnabar's Financial policy

[Cynnabar Seneschal via Barony]

Greetings  one and all. 


We had discussed earlier at a business meeting ways we can help speed up
approving some smaller expenditures by officers in carrying out the duties
of their office. Several ideas and ways to do this were brought forth.
However, it kind of went by the wayside for a bit. A couple of items came up
recently that has rekindled me thinking about this. Normally, I would just
bring this up at a meeting, but since the change I am going to propose below
will update our only "official" document (our Financial Policy), I wanted to
give the chance for the larger group to give some feedback on this. 


Please note: I am NOT putting this on Facebook. Many, many people that are
not Cynnabar are part of that group, so please keep this conversation to the
Cynnabar e-mail list or in person.

 

In short, the below update to the Financial Policy is to speed up minor
purchases by officers. The reason for this is to remove some of the
bureaucracy and unnecessary burden for minor items. But to still have the
budget items proposed and allow the request to be reviewed and approved (or
denied) by the group. Many ways were discussed previously on how to limit
(via wording/restrictions) these requests so they don't get abused. In the
end, keeping things simple and trusting both the officers in their role and
the group in general to know when things are being abused should help
curtail any issues. Thus my wording below of "occasionally request" is there
on purpose. 

 

The proposed addition to the Cynnabar Financial Policy: 

2. ii. 3. Group officers may occasionally request minor expenditures (up to
$50 or so) for carrying out the duties of their office. These minor budget
line item requests can be requested by the officer at a business meeting and
then approved or denied by the participants at that same meeting. 

 

Feel free to give feedback here or to me directly on adding this to our
Financial Policy. This will be brought up at a regular business meeting and
run through the normal 3 meeting discussion/approval process to make the
final decision. 

 

In service,

-Finn, Seneschal.

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